Crime scene: children of violence

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Episode of the series Tatort
Original title Children of violence
Country of production Germany
original language German
Production
company		 WDR
length 89 minutes
classification Episode 411 ( List )
First broadcast May 2, 1999 on Das Erste
Rod
Director Ben Verbong
script Edgar by Cossart
Ben Verbong
production Sonja Goslicki
music Hannes Vester
camera Kay Gauditz
cut Vera van Appeldorn
occupation

Children of Violence is a television film from the crime series Tatort by ARD and ORF . The report produced by WDR was broadcast for the first time on May 2, 1999 and is the 411th crime scene episode and the seventh case of the investigators Ballauf and Schenk .

action

Violence and crime are the order of the day at a Cologne comprehensive school. Ballauf has to witness this after Jürgen, the son of his hotel landlady, comes home bleeding and without his sneakers - two boys in his class are responsible for the robbery. While Jürgen is being brought to the clinic, two other boys in his class commit a break-in, but they are caught by the police.

Jürgen is so intimidated that he does not reveal his tormentors. Ballauf tries to get something out of him at the police station, but Jürgen only says that they would kill him if he betrayed them. That actually happens the next day. He is found dead in the school bathroom and it looks like he shot himself. Ballauf is hit hard by the news that his colleague Schenk has to deliver and he has no doubt that the boy was killed. The autopsy reveals numerous traces of abuse, but the questioning of classmates provides little information, as none of the children dares to speak. For example, Max Ballauf can be hired as the new physical education teacher at the school to find out more.

A teacher had noticed a vehicle in front of the school for a long time; the owner query leads to a Johannes Schmitz who is already on record with the police for various offenses. The inspectors soon suspect that Schmitz is letting the children work for him and commit burglaries. When they investigate this suspicion, they find out that two of the boys were convinced that Jürgen had betrayed them to the police because they saw him at the police station after they were arrested. They told their "boss", Johannes Schmitz. This is then arrested.

The boys Tobias Bender and Karl Reinders meanwhile torture his friend Danni, who has to take part in the break-ins, after Jürgen is no longer there. A discussion in class reveals how much Tobias tormented and humiliated Jürgen again and again. The student Nadine reports that Jürgen had often told her that he couldn't take it anymore. In the end, it turns out that the boy actually shot himself and that the gun came from one of the break-ins he was forced to participate in.

background

In this episode, Tessa Mittelstaedt plays the vacation replacement for Lissy Pütz and is called Anja. A year later, with the role of Franziska Lüttgenjohann, she becomes an integral part of the next 44 Cologne crime scenes alongside Ballauf and Schenk.

Locations

The Tatort episode was shot mainly in downtown Cologne and in some parts of the city near the city center. The Geschwister-Scholl-Realschule in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , for example, served as the location for the comprehensive school in the film. The high-rise apartment building, which served as the backdrop for the apartment in which Karl Reinders lives, is located on Niehler Gürtel in Cologne-Niehl . The railway bridge on which Danni almost kills himself at the end of the episode is the Südbrücke in Köln-Neustadt-Süd .

reception

Audience rating

The first broadcast of Children of Violence on May 2, 1999 was seen by a total of 7.88 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 24.04 percent for Das Erste .

criticism

TV Spielfilm showed the thumbs up and said: “Committed, realistic, still explosive today”.

The Berliner-by-choice judges: “In terms of the plot, there are a few questions. [...] What distinguishes the film, on the other hand, is the alternation between the depiction of drastic children's characters and very small, quiet moments that say a lot. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tatort - Children of Violence Filming locations and audience ratings from the Internet Movie Database , accessed on June 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ TV thriller about crimes at a school. Short review by TV Spielfilm at tvspielfilm.de, accessed on June 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ Children of Violence, film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on June 25, 2015.
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